A From January, researchers from British institutions will be able to participate in and receive funding from the EU’s research and innovation programme.
The final step in the process was rubber-stamped by the EU-UK Special Committee on Participation in Union Projects, which adopted a political agreement on the UK’s involvement with Horizon Europe and the Copernicus component of the space programme.
Horizon Europe is the EU’s main funding program for research and innovation, with a budget of €95.5 billion for 2021-27, while providing access to planetary observation services from the Copernicus space satellites.
The Association Protocol is part of the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement, which was due to expire in 2020, after the British exit from the European Union (Brexit), but was delayed due to disagreements over Northern Ireland’s trade status.
According to the European Commission, the United Kingdom will contribute €2.43 billion per year, on average, to the EU budget for participation in Horizon Europe and around €154 million for participation in Copernicus.
In September, a British executive said he had received a “customized contract with excellent financial conditions” that would see him not paid for time taken out of projects and reimbursed if British scientists received significantly less money. than paid..
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